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Thanks Stephen! I like it - at that point in my write-ups, I honestly wasn't thinking too much about the names, and instead focusing primarily on narrative gaps. Maturation is def…
26 Apr 2015, 20:33
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Could very well be, since it is a place and makes more sense than using somali there ... Thanks!? Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha?, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original…
26 Apr 2015, 20:02
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Then definitely that one. “Thanks !” Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha?, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> …
26 Apr 2015, 20:01
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I thought about that too but that feels a bit too self-referentially meta- for Wolfe to me ... I feel like the majority of his short stories do not refer necessarily to other of hi…
26 Apr 2015, 20:00
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#HOW THE BISHOP SAILED TO INNISKEEN “How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen” was first published in *Spirits of Christmas* in 1989 and is collected in *Innocents Aboard*. ##Summary: …
26 Apr 2015, 19:11
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"In The Godstone and the Blackymore," White even comments on being observed by a Chough: "I thought how strange that young ravens should be as small as jackdaws, that they should …
26 Apr 2015, 14:21
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I suppose it could mean "web of swords/important events" as well... The story also uses the donkey and the bull to re-enact the rather famous allegory of the long spoons - hell wo…
26 Apr 2015, 12:17
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I am writing up a whole bunch of the short story ones now, and there is a scene at the end of the rather allegorical (but obviously so) No Planets Strike, which depicts the reign o…
26 Apr 2015, 11:58
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#COUNTING CATS IN ZANZIBAR “Counting Cats in Zanzibar” was first published in 1996 in *Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine*. It is collected in *Strange Travellers*. ##Summa…
25 Apr 2015, 02:35
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#IN THE HOUSE OF GINGERBREAD “In the House of Gingerbread” first appeared in *The Architecture of Fear* in 1987 and is collected in *Endangered Species*. ##Summary: The third pe…
24 Apr 2015, 23:14
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They had a reputation for being anti-intellecual, kind of barbaric and by implication not high class enough to bathe I suppose ...…
24 Apr 2015, 20:12
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Looks like the day is rapidly approaching when I won't be able to snicker at the unwashed philistines at the New Yorker.…
24 Apr 2015, 20:05
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Here is a profile of Wolfe in The New Yorker ... http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius?intcid=mod-latest geez, it says he wrote over "fifty" stories…
24 Apr 2015, 16:50
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I.e. - a monster spares the boy, but the courts won't? Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha?, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: "Jeffery Wilson clu…
23 Apr 2015, 13:49
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I guess the question in determining that remains, is the theme that society and justice are more monstrous than a monster ...With the Dickens characters, I assume that must be in t…
23 Apr 2015, 13:48
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I guess that would depend on whether Fagin saw a trial or heard of an arrest, “but, yes, "transported" is pretty ambiguous language. ?Dickens makes such a big deal about the trial …
23 Apr 2015, 12:49
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THE LITHOSPHERE WHALE As part of the Creature Coral, “The Lithosphere Whale” was Wolfe’s entry in the Wofford College’s 2012 shared world. It appeared only online. Here is the en…
22 Apr 2015, 16:43
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#Planetarium in Orbit "Planetarium in Orbit" first appeared as part of the Chicago Worldcon Bid for 2012 pulp fiction series in an August 2009 pamphlet, with the title *Constipati…
22 Apr 2015, 16:34
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LAST DRINK BIRDHEAD: GENE WOLFE Gene Wolfe's entry for the Jeff Vandermeer's *Last Drink Birdhead *appeared in 2009 and has not been collected elsewhere. SUMMARY: Original…
22 Apr 2015, 16:26
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#A VISIT FROM HIS CONFIDANT “A Visit From His Confidant” appeared in the *Readercon 22* convention booklet in 2011. Mark Twain was the memorial guest of honor. ##SUMMARY: The n…
22 Apr 2015, 16:21
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UNREQUITED LOVE “Unrequited Love” first appeared in *Subterranean Press Magazine* in their Summer 2007 edition. It has not been collected. SUMMARY: The story begins with an …
22 Apr 2015, 16:08
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THE ON DECK CIRCLE “The On Deck Circle” first appeared in the Autumn 2008 edition of *Postscripts Magazine*. It has never been collected. SUMMARY In a future where sensation…
22 Apr 2015, 15:47
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THE VAMPIRE KISS “The Vampire Kiss” first appeared in the April 2005 edition of *Realms of Fantasy* and has never been collected. SUMMARY The story is narrated by Mr. Fagin, one…
22 Apr 2015, 15:26
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DUMPSTER WORLD “Dumpster World” first appeared in the mock section of Steven Silver’s *Argentus* 5 in 2005. Silver introduces the mock section by stating, “This issue features, f…
22 Apr 2015, 15:04
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COMBER “Comber” was published in *Postscripts *Spring 2005 issue and has never been collected. SUMMARY: A nameless point of view character wakes up to the same news he heard t…
22 Apr 2015, 14:44
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RATTLER “Rattler” was first published in *Realms of Fantasy* in 2004, co-authored with Brian Hopkins, and is reprinted in Starwater Strains. SUMMARY: The story is framed as a…
22 Apr 2015, 14:11
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CALAMITY WARPS “Calamity Warps” first appeared in *Realms of Fantasy* in 2003 and is collected in *Starwater Strains.* SUMMARY The story begins, “Calamity Jane is our dog,…
22 Apr 2015, 14:00
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Since I am reformatting these now, I wanted to get them out in case anyone had some excellent input that needed to be incorporated. Most of these presented out of order are fairly …
22 Apr 2015, 13:46
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Jives pretty well with my idea of what Latro is (ahura mazda incognito, learning to shun war in a trial run full of human suffering which will lead to the shifting from pagan gods …
21 Apr 2015, 22:56
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“Alphabet” first appeared in *Fiction International* in 1988 and is collected in *Storeys from the Old Hotel.* SUMMARY: The story begins, “The pet held up a dead snake, then laid…
21 Apr 2015, 15:41
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Trying to finish up a few write ups in the late 80s and one that I have thought about but not started seriously yet is Lukora. The plot is simple enough, possibly off world survey…
31 Jan 2015, 17:34
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Sure - in claw of the conciliator when jonas and sev are taken to the antechamber where people spend their whole lives waiting for sentencing, jonas starts quoting carroll about th…
27 Jan 2015, 01:45
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*READ ME* “Read Me” first appeared in *The Drabble Project* in 1988 and has not been reprinted. The story is only one hundred words long, as seen below: Alice looked about her. …
26 Jan 2015, 17:32
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*THE FLAG* “The Flag” first appeared in *Storeys from the Old Hotel* in 1988. SUMMARY: The narrator recalls playing with his friends as a child. They ran in the square, scatteri…
25 Jan 2015, 17:52
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In my research i have noticed that many of the poetry quotes Wolfe uses (such as those in the woman who loved the centaur pholus) come from a secondary source more relevant to his …
06 Jan 2015, 13:50
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(Did my previous post go through with the long write-up?) I was just thinking that the biblical allusion with Ezekiel in chapter 10, of the cherubim and the fire, resonates with a…
05 Jan 2015, 22:54
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THE ARIMASPIAN LEGACY AND SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY “The Arimaspian Legacy” and “Slow Children at Play” appeared as Cheap Street Chapbooks in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and are coll…
05 Jan 2015, 20:36
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I think this only got sent to Marcos and not the list, so a resend: I am not sure Wolfe need ever have heard of Euhemerism to play with the themes of apotheosis. The transmogrif…
05 Jan 2015, 14:03
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For those who have the kindle edition of Lexicon Urthus second edition, Michael informs me that he has made 42 revisions (which future physical copies will have). The update is av…
23 Nov 2014, 17:54
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Definitely read the entire article on Ultan's for textual support which I couldn't get into on the video. Life cycle of Abos: larva, adult motile stage, tree "carapace" sessile s…
22 Nov 2014, 05:42
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One of the most interesting meta factors of the first video was the default closed captioning. It was bizarre. Talk of "jean shorts" and mishearing words as "seriously shitty" wh…
20 Nov 2014, 16:38
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I don't know if I can get by on my looks with a podcast, though ... As long as I can move my hands I guess the words will flow just as well.…
20 Nov 2014, 16:21
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Thanks Antonin ... and I haven't seen that clip in years!! "Belgium ... which is famous for its ... waffles." Thanks for the link.…
20 Nov 2014, 16:15
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Well, here's part two of my youtube series ... almost did it in one take but I flubbed food and drug administration and predendritic pretty badly. It wound up being too long to cov…
20 Nov 2014, 05:18
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That's how it's done- beat 'em at their own game. Are practitioners superverts or superverters?…
11 Nov 2014, 19:12
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There's a few uhhs in there but I try to stay energetic when the camera rolls! Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.…
11 Nov 2014, 17:17
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The last supper of Leonardo da Vinci .. Can you tell I am Catholic? Heh heh. (Gaudy Italian Americans can sometimes be stereotyped pretty accurately. ). Glad you enjoyed it! Than…
11 Nov 2014, 14:28
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I realized that I had been using youtube only for exercise videos and physical feats for years (mostly under a different channel titled "felicibusbrevis") when I could actually be …
11 Nov 2014, 11:59
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I tried to organize something similar, and sometimes there was plenty of participation, sometimes no comments on a story for months. I tried to do it more or less chronologically. …
03 Nov 2014, 14:12
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These thread titles live to deceive you, sad experience teaches me. [Of course, I do think Catholic and historically heretical ideologies are valid insights into Wolfe's writing -…
26 Oct 2014, 14:31
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